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...seems incredible to me that Public Health Researcher Foltz and Epidemiologist Kelsey, described in your story "Flap About Pap" [Nov. 13], would put down the Pap smear on the basis of "considerable expense." This relatively simple test, which can detect cancer, costs only about $6. Further, if the test does not detect cancerous conditions 25% to 30% of the time, isn't this all the more reason to have checkups annually and not every three to five years...
...Whenever possible, the incision is placed above the hairline so the scar is not readily visible. The skin is then separated away or "undermined" from the underlying muscle and fat and pulled taut to eliminate folds and bags. Finally, the excess skin is trimmed away and the flap of skin is sewed back into place. In the past few years, surgeons have expanded the technique to sometimes include tightening up the muscles underneath the skin of the neck and jaw to give more striking and lasting results. If all goes well, the facelift will last for from four to eight...
...first, the flap seemed to have some of the ingredients of a first-class scandal. The evidence seemed to suggest that Financier Robert Lee Vesco had masterminded a well-funded campaign to buy influence from some of the President's advisers. Vesco's purpose: to get them to call off the Justice Department's attempt to extradite him from Costa Rica, where he had lived in exile for six years to escape prosecution for fraud. But as more details emerged last week, one critical thing was missing: any evidence that the President or his aides had done anything for Vesco...
Like many fashionable Italians, Alessandro De Tomaso, owner of the Maserati car company, carries an elegant man's handbag dangling from a shoulder strap. But his bag is unusual in one respect. By slipping his hand through an open flap on the side, De Tomaso can quickly grab a .38 revolver that he keeps cradled inside. Says he: "It is just a normal hazard of business life in Italy today...
...Harvard linksters rode out the storm here on Friday, teeing up in pelting rain and 40-ish temperatures on a course whose fairways seemed to flap in the wind, like ribbons in a schoolgirl's hair...